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Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak says that 256 ministry employees have failed to pass professional re-evaluation. ”Reorganization of the ministry`s departments is over. Due to the optimization, the number of the departments has decreased to 18 from 25, and the number of personnel has declined by nearly 200 people,” the minister said at...

The Ukrainian government on August 4 considered a draft resolution ”On amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine concerning the revision of some tax rates,” which proposes an increase in the excise tax on alcohol and cigarettes, according to the RBC Ukraine news agency. In particular, it is proposed to raise excise tax on malt beer to UAH 2.78 per...

Ukraine`s consolidated budget deficit in the first half of 2016 amounted to UAH 11.3 billion against a surplus of UAH 12.2 billion in the same period last year, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in its Inflation Report for July 2016, published on the regulator`s website. According to the report, the consolidated budget posted a deficit of...

Mobilization will be announced immediately if there is serious deterioration in the situation in Donbas, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov stated at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday. ”The number of mobilized soldiers was reduced by more than 2.5 times during the first six months. In the second half of...

Belgian financial investigators looking into recent terror plots have discovered a disturbing trend: Some of the suspects were collecting welfare benefits until shortly before they carried out their attacks, according to The Wall Street Journal. At least five of the alleged plotters in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks partly financed...

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have received more than 10,000 samples of weapons and military equipment since the beginning of the year, spokesman for the Defense Ministry Colonel Oleksiy Chernobay said at a briefing on Friday. ”Over the past week, state-owned enterprises delivered more than 150 samples of weapons and military equipment to the...

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov has announced two scenarios that Russia can implement to try to conquer Ukraine. ”The paradigm of ”hybrid war” is characterized by a high variance of methods with an overall integrated approach to their use,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday, a UNIAN...

U.S. President Barack Obama says there have been gains against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but warned the group still poses a threat, according to the BBC. As the jihadist group lost ground, he said, there were signs it was shifting to attacks abroad, the BBC has reported. ”The possibility of a lone actor or a small cell that kills...

The Ukrainian government is considering the possibility of monetizing subsidies which are left unused by households at the end of the heating season, according to the press service of Vice Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko. ”One of the options for improving the system of subsidies, and I reckon it will be introduced, is the monetization of the...

U.S. officials don`t expect to extradite an imam Turkey blames for masterminding a failed coup because they aren`t convinced by the evidence Ankara has presented and are troubled by threatening public statements from Turkish officials, according to people familiar with the discussions, according to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. and Turkish...